In the summer of 2016, my wife Mohini and I came across a blog about a shoe made from recovered plastic from the ocean by Adidas in collaboration with Parley.We began researching the ocean plastic problem and were aghast by the realities of this man-made epidemic: 8.3 billion tons of plastic pollutes our world's oceans. Our son Roshan was born just 6 months later.At that moment, we decided to fully dedicate our entrepreneurial efforts to help ensure he and his peers have the opportunity of enjoying a less polluted Ocean.We decided to focus on the unnecessary consumption of single-use ‘disposable’ plastic water bottles. Over 500,000,000,000 single-use plastic water bottles are consumed annually. Bottled water has now surpassed soft drinks as the most consumed beverage.So, just 6 months after Roshan was born, we started rOcean (www.rocean.com) to help people wean themselves off of their bottled water addiction.Why do people buy single-use bottled water? Because it's convenient, seemingly ‘pure’, and healthy. And, with the addition of flavors, carbonation, electrolytes, vitamins and other ‘enhancements’, drinking water out of a bottle becomes less boring.So we asked ourselves, what if there was one machine that could make all of those water-based beverages at home – without the need for shipping or warehousing water. And without the single-use plastic waste.We created the rOcean One – a well-designed, all-in-one smart device that connects directly to your tap so you can have filtered, carbonated, and/or flavored or any type of ‘enhanced’ water at the push of a button.Our patent-pending flavor and enhancement pods are dishwasher safe and reusable...and refills are conveniently delivered right to your door (by not shipping water, we reduce waste by 99%!). Water, the way you like it, without the waste.